The latest version of the Zend Framework version 1.7 is out now. This version comes with quite a few new features and modules like support for Adobe’s AMF (Action Message Format) to enable communication between PHP and Flash, twitter, Google Book search, jQuery and Dojo support and more.

Here are some of the new features and modules:

• Zend_Amf with support for AMF0 and AMF3 protocols
• Dojo Toolkit 1.2.1
• Support for dijit editor available in the Dojo Toolkit
• Zend_Service_Twitter
• ZendX_JQuery in extras library
• Metadata API in Zend_Cache
• Google book search API in Zend_Gdata
• Support for Open Office XML documents in Zend_Search_Lucene indexer
• Performance enhancements in Zend_Loader, Zend_Controller, and server components
• Zend_ProgressBar
• Zend_Config_Writer
• ZendX_Console_Unix_Process in the extras library
• I18N improvements
  • Application wide locale for all classes
  • Data retrieving methods are now static
  • Additional cache handling methods in all I18N classes
  • Zend_Translate API simplified
• File transfer enhancements
  • Support for file elements in subforms
  • Support for multifile elements
  • Support for MAX_FILES_SIZE in form
  • Support for breaking validation chain
  • Support for translation of failure ,messages
  • New IsCompressed, IsImage, ExcludeMimeType, ExcludeExtension validators
  • Support for FileInfo extension in MimeType validator
• Zend_Db_Table_Select adapater for Zend_Paginator
• Support for custom adapters in Zend_Paginator
• More flexible handling of complex types in Zend_Soap

If you’re looking for the AMF code separately, head over to: http://framework.zend.com/download/amf where you can download the AMF package independently.

This is quite a lot of features given the short turnaround time for this release. ZF 1.6 was released just under three months previous to this release.

Download the latest version at: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

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